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4 1t- L I:;‘,. r ' r!k cI IJARTERLY REVIEW, No. 14IX. 'he published on the 28th inetant. Printed for John Murky', .Alhonatle-street. This day was published, in Bvo, with a Map. T HE PRESENT STATE OF COLOMBIA. By an OFFICER, Late in the _Colombian Service. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle 4treet. Just Published, with a Map, Bvo., 12s. NARRATIVE OF THE BURMESE WAR. By MAJOR SNODGRASS, Military Secretary to the Commander of the Expedition, and Assistant Political Agent in Ava. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. -• This dsy was published, Svo., price as. hoards, PRO'T'ESTANT UNION.-A TREATISE - 11 . of TRUE RELIGION, HERESY, SCHISM, TO LERATION..snd what beet means may Iss used against the GROWTH of POPERY. 13y JOHN MILTON. To which is prefixed, a Preface on Milton's Religions Princi ples, and Unimpeachable Sincerity. By THOI4AS BuMIMS, D.D. F.R.S. Bishop of Salisbury. .Printed for J. Hatohard and Son, 18'7; Piccadilly ; and C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard. IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COM PANY, SUN-COURT, COANHILT., and No. 6, ST. JAMES I 9- STRIET. DIRECTORS. Comehue Buller, Esq., Chairman. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Deputy Chairman. Grant Allan, .Esq. • David Lyon. Esq. Chas. Barclay, Esq., M.P. Daniel Mildred, Esq. &nem Barkly, Esq. • Sir Charles Price, Bart. Chas:lea Danvore,..E.aq. , Joseph Reid, Esq. • . John Henry Deffell, Esq. John Baker Richards, Esq. Samuel Drewe', - Esq. John Smith, Esq. M.P. . William Fry,-Esq. Hemy, .Sterry, Esq. • Robert Lang, Esq. • John Heaton Tritton, Esq. Richard Lee,: Esq. -Richard Twining, Esq. alr-DIII4CTORIi - • George Brown, Esq. t Sir James Shaw, Bart. Andrew Colvile, Esq. Robert. Slade, EN. JeremiSh Olive, Esq. , Joseph Timperon, Esq. A MUTOAS. Michael Bland, Esq. • • James Pattison, jun. Esq. (Wiwi - De Vistne, Esq.. John Tritton, Esq. And. Lenghnan, jun. Esq. Notice is hereby given, that Insurances which expire at Christ. mss should be renewed Within 15 days. thereafter, or they be come void, and that receipts for such renewals are now ready for delivery,. at the Offices •iu London, and with the respective Agents for the. Company throughout the United Kingdom. P. MILNER, - Accountant. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE and PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, Regent-street, London ; Establisted 106. PRIMILIENT AND TRUSTIES., THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, THE MARQUESS OF NORTHAMPTON, EARL GREY, LORD KING, &c. &c. &c. DIRECTORS. 3, T. Barber Beaumont, Esti. Sir S, B. Morland, Bart. Francis Const, Esq. Hon. Thomas Parker Sir George Duckett, Bart. William Freed, Esq. Sir John Harrington, Bart. Sir Henry Pynn Hon. Frederick Hotham General Shrapuell Sir Richard King, Bart. • Sir• William 1.. Welby, Bart. &c. &c. &c. Capitals, a Million Sterling and upwards. The Protitkare divided amongst those who now insure, as well as the original Membere, in just proportion to their respective payments. In the Fire Of4t - ,e, Returns, during the last thirteen years, to the amount of .62,000 L have been paid to all Persons who have cgliiillUed insured Seven Years, upon Annual es %yell as Septen nial Policies,; and whether.thephave been Sufferers or otherwise. In the Life Office, 'Bangle* of 13/. de. and 261. 12s. per cent. have been divided during the last Fourteen Years.—An othei. Septennial Di v id en d will take place nett year, in which those who now insure will participate. Military Men are not charged ,additional, unless called into actual service. Persons are at liberty to pass and repass to the Continent all, der limitations, without Licence•and extra.Prensium. • Persons removing to unhealthy climates, or subject to bodily infirmities, may be insured. If any Person die by Suicide, Duelling, or the Hands of Jus tice, the full value which his Policy bore on the day previous to the time of his Death will be paid. No Admission Fees. are required, nor it any Charge made for except. the Stamp Duty. VUROPEAN ,LIFE INSURANCE and 'AN NUITY 10, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London.--This Ctimpany is formed on principles combining every degree of security with advantages superior to any pre viously orered to the Public. Is consists of a number of Pro prietors, who are required to assure on their own lives or on those of approved nominees, SUM proportionate to their respec • tive shares, on every transfer of which a new assurance is re quired to he effected. This system, by the perpetual renovation uf policies, secure' the stability and growing prosperity of the Company, sad is productive of great benefit to the assured, who participate in the profits arising from the regulation, without be ing responsible for the engagements of the Company, which are secured by a large sulirrihed capital. In the year 1819, when the European Company was formed, the Directors caused rates of insurance 'to be calculated from the amalgamated life tables of all Europe, which produced results lower than .the rates of gay Company then evtabhalle d i and which will he still found lower than any of the tables of Companies more reoently formed, which admit the insured to a participation in the profits : and this difference is so considerable as to be in the na ture of an annual bonus to the assured. The affairs of the CoMpany are managed by a Board of Twelve .Directiors,'_whichi.sitiavery Wednesday throughout the year, at 4* Company's. Office, i4o. 10, Chatham-plare, Blackfriars. Prospectuses may he had at the Mire, or of any of the Pro prietors. • 'II CLARK'S GENERAL OUTFITTING 11- • WAREHOUSE, •for' the EAST and WEST MIMES yid SOUTH. AMERICA, EXETER 'CHANGE,. STRAND. -Officers, .C.adota, stul;Writirs going to India, and Gentlemen Proceeding to South America, or any other part of the Globe, 'wilt find In this Establishment the whole' of their Military Ap. pontinents,. Swords, Chaco, Sashes, Hefts, l'hullst' 8" toge ther with.il large and well-ntanufactured stock of Sett Cote, Couches, and Bedding; Cubin Wash.liand Tables, Chairs, mid Lamps ; Sea. Chests, Mole and Bullock Trunks, and every other descrip tion of Travelling Equipage.' AN Afr;SOIITMENT OF CANTEENS, ready fitted with the necessary requisites for India, and other tropical climates ; IiI: c • wise a great variety of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives trod Forks, suitable for families going *inroad Military an d Hincito tantive Books, Maps, &e. A FASHIONABLE STOCK of Carriege, Curride, Tandem, PbaAnn, Staullot* aral chaise HARNESS, With every descrip tion of Sartilery, &c. &e. fbr :bome.ine, East and West Indies, and South •America, which merit inspection from ' their excellent quality, first style of workmanship, and moderate prices. All,tho Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and the excellent plan of fifty years standing is *till strictly adhered to, of asking hot one Ready Alone,' Price, from which no abatement Win he made; • • TOOTH-ACHE AND EAR-ACHE. PEURY ESSENCE has received the sanction and support of the most distinguished personages in the Kingdom, together with the united testimony of the first Physi cians i n 'Eureix'', and numerous favourable comments in highly re spectable Medical, Journals, where it has been declared to he. the " taw TIRING Vila., DISCOVERICI) FOR THE TOOTH - ACHE A" 14117AP1E." It instantaneously relieves„the most excruciating pain, preserves_ the toetit sound and firm, prevents further decay, effechuilly, cures the Scut* in the Gums, fastens loose Teeth, and renders them firm and serviceable to the latest period, and effectually prevents the Tooth -Ache. Sold in Bottles, at ls. lid. and 2s. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, Cheapside, corner St. Paul's ; '73, Princes Street, Edinburgh; and 64 , , Sackville Street, Dublin; Savory and Co., 136, New Bond Street; Willinott, 83, high Street, Borough; and the prineitudiMedicine Venders in the 'United Kingdom: 01 whom 'illay-liehad , lllollßlS's BRUNSWICK CORN PLAISTER, an "WHOA :Remedy for Eradicating Corns, Buniotui, &e. In Boxes, itt 01, iv,. • 1 1 , 4.• Ask for PERRY'S ESSENCr fur the Tooth Ache. .„. _., --,,f,_,4 ' f •ti 'to -... . . - ;;.. 00 0 ;, A - ' 'O4-Ati' .4 1 ' -- _....7 , --x ,, ,, :'' "---- '''' 7 '*'‘` • C '. .',-,' - lite' . ,i, )k,' ' 4, ..t: 0 6 ' . • i C ' .40 3 / 1 ‘ . ..,.. . ' '''' N. ,. , ' ~,, ''r , . .--. t .: 1 - 111r;:-, „ „ :•;.-„,, ,4 4 ' ''' ' ' , i' ' ' - . : '''' ;' I ' ' • ' f'd s :", ‹, r , , ' CS, 0,40 FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1826. THE COURT of 1/IRECTORS ®f the WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY, hereby give notice, that an HALF-YEARLY 'GENERAL. COURT will be held, pursuant to the directions of the Act of Parliament, at the West India Dock Rouse, No. 13 . , Billiter-eqUare, on TUESDAY, the 9th day of January next, at One o'Clock in the afternoon, at which Meet ing a DIVIDEND will be declared for the half-year ending the 91st instant. By order of the Court, IL LONGLANDS, Secretary. Wed India . Dock-house, Dec. 19, 1826. S:B. The Chair will be taken at Two o'Clock precisely. ABINET-111 AK Elt S' SOCIETY.- ‘../ ,CHEAP-CABINET and UPHOLSTERY, at the LON. DON REPOSITORY far the CABINET-MAKERS' SO CIETY,' being the only real one now existing in London,. No. 71, corner of LEADENHALL-STREET, opposite Aldgate Pump, and which has been established upwards of Six years. For Ready. Money, and no Abatement. The- Trustees and Committee respectfully inform the Nobility and Gentry, that they still conduct the above Establishment foe the Benefit of industrious and ingenious Mechanics (who have large families), by offering their Manufactured Articles in the Cabinet Line of the best workmanship, and cheaper than by any Heim in London, no other profit being required' than to satisfy the warehouse rent and incidental expences tieing satisfied with constant employment to enable them to support their families, the number of whom appear by the Books of the last Quarterly Meeting to be 14S. From the great patronage the Committee have received, they are in hopes of inereasiug that number. The following is a Specimen of the Low Prices asked ; all noode warranted • e. d. Five feet Mahogany Bedstead, fur-povt 4 10 0 . . - . Tent ditto - • - Bordered Mattress to fit • - Mahogany Drawers with solid ends - Eight Mahogany Chairs - 1 t 0 1 1 0 3 5 0 10 :'? (1 0 Maogary 1 3 innianke Tobte Feather MAI free from dint and smell, from £2 19 0 to 8 S 0 Drawing-room Sofa, kom Lb b 0 ti, 7 7 0 Sofa Bedetead - s 0 Mahogany Horse-Hair Sofa - - 10 0 upwards A quantity of Paper Hangings for Bed, Dining, anti Drawing rooms, at nearly lialf-priee. The Trade will find it wrath their attention. Houses Furnished at a few days' notive, and Apartments in a few hours,--.Gaudy packed free of expenoe except the matting. commtrrxr. T. Corder IJ. Wilson T. Hailer IJ. Matt THURNELL, Agent. 1-1 J. Carter W. Waghoru J. ASLER, Sevretary STANZAS ADDRESSFD TO THE BRITISH TROOPS WHEN ON THEIR MARCH FOR 10111ARKATION TO PORTUGAL, DRC. 14. liy Misi . ANNA MARIA PORTER. A blessing on your banners high ! A blessing on your swords As firm ye tread, while marehing . hy, - Ye look Creation's lords ! Ye look the men Spain ought to fear True sons of Freedom all ; Who, when their brother's cry they hear, Start instant at' the call. Though some are from the peasant's cot, And some from lordly dome, From hardy life, or sheltered lot, Yet all have left a home And all of that free home will think, As on they rush to save, In brave relief they cannot shrink Before a Bigot's Slave ! And if ye struggle for the right, In Gas protecting name, What boots it, though the mortal fight May gain ye, nought but fame? For if ye win—or if ye lose Where laurels wave not high, The Christian palm more nobly strews A field where heroes die. And to your bloody bed shall bands From earth's far regions come, To Paid with pure and patriot bends • Your honour's lofty tomb : And mothers o'er such sons shalt weep No tears of frenzied woe; But tears that heal the hearts they steep Embalming where they flow. On then! with banner and with band ! In pomp of gallant show, Ye warriors of my own dear land ! I bless ye as ye go. Your music bide my soul rejoice, Like glory's breath of flame; For glory past has Prophet-voice, And tells of future fame. . . Gn ! pour that music's rousing air The hills of Spain among, And every echo wakened there, SIAU he proud .memory's song ! Go, triumph o'er her 'mountain holds, There lift your banners' crests; The lion on their war-sunu'd folds, The cross Within your breasts! __—_-- SHOCKING AccinEwr ..:—Yesterday morning , as' miss Jane Bartrip, daughter of Mr. Battrip, iarg e o n , square, was leani ng out o f her ehatober:.witulow, two stories high , mto wipe soeth she unfortunately' over-teethed ing. off:th e glass,of Leicester herself, and fell int o th e street ; she was taken op apparent l y life less, but hopes a re entertained 1)- -I f 1 vr tecovery, ADDRESS OF THE CATHOLICS OF IRE LAND TO THE PEOPLE 01? ENGLAND. Englishmen; Fellow-Christians, and Fellow-Country men,—We, the entholies of ♦ . Irelaod, at the commence ment of a new Parliament, deetn it our duty to ourselves and our country, again to appeal to the good tense and impartial feeling of our English fellow-subjects against the unjust disqualifications under which we labour, for a con- . emotions adherence to opinions which, in our own mind, we think ate right. PelloW . -Chtiatians,---Our religion is.your religion—the religion of the Gospel of Jeans Christ. The first doctrine of our common. Founder is peace and good will to all men —the golden rule of Christianity is to do unto others as, we- should wish that others should do unto us. If in aught we differ, we do it conscientiously and on conviction. e only exercise, like other dissenters, that right of choos ing for ourselves which i 9 the boast of the Reformation, and the basis of all Protestantism; and which if you grant, as you ought to do, on your own principles, tia all others, why should you singly ref* it unto us? Is it littingrthat Christians, in the very mitre of Christendom, should be less favoured than _atheists and infidels, and that this in justice, positive, substantial, and extensive, should be per mitted to endure against millions and generations, without any realor sufficient cause ? Fellow-countrymen,—ln our own country we form a large majority of the population, and if Ireland, like other countries, were to be governed in the sense of the majority: of its inhabitants, we should long since have been free. But the legislative union has incorporated us with England. We now form an integral portion of the British empire, and one-third of the whole of the state. A just Government, like a just man, will give in propor tion as: he veteives. Is it, then, just, that paying the contributions of our blood and treasure equally with every ether British subject,. we alone of all British subjects, should he deprived of our portion of the protection anti security and honours of the British empire? Is it. right that one third of the population of any country should be held in comparative. degradation for the gratification of the other two ? is such a country free, and is it fitting that. such degradatiOn and such injustice should endure for three centuries, against millions and generations, without any real or sufficient cause ? It is not from our enemies, whose interest it is to ca lumniate, that they may more safely oppress. us, that an estimate should be taken of our principles or conduct. Of our principles we ourselves are the.best interpretersof our conduct, the public at large. We leave. to reasonable and thinking men the decision on both. We ask them fearlessly to examine, and then to . judge according to that examination, between the people of Ireland and their op ponents. There is no real or sufficient cense in our principles or conduct, to exclude us from ri full participation in all the privileges of a free state. There is nothing in the tenets of the Catholic to disqualify him from enjoying freedom. Portugal is free—France is free—South America is free —and Portugal, France, and South America profess the tenets of the Catholics of Ireland. There is nothing in the Tenets of British Catholics to disqualify them' from a full enjoyment of British freedom. The British Constitu tion was founded by Catholics—can Catholics be indifferent to its support ? We yield to no class in obedience to the laws, in attachment to the Sovereign, in honourable anxiety for the po,!ver, "%lf empire. Ttreferr pr ivat a situation, civil anti military, of confidence and honour, we have equalled, if not surpassed our professions. The very earnestness with which we now seek a re-admission into the constitution, i s the best proof how strongly we are attached to Its prin ciples, how deeply we appreciate its advantages and rights. NVe have been accused of divided allegianc e , su b vers i ve otthe power of a Protestant Government, *nd of the rights of a Protestant people, of violating or equivocating on the sacred engagements of an oath, of preserving un changed the spirit of per s e cut i on , which tainted all nations till the present enlightened era. We have disclaimed, and do disclaim, each and all of these allegations ;—we dis elairiad them in 1767; again in 1792; the six leading universities of the Catholic world, in 1788, disclaimed them; the chief of our church, Pope Pius VI., in. 1791 disclaimed them ; our Bishops and Archbishops, on their solemn oaths before the Imperial Parliament, have empha tically and recently disclaimed them ; and we cannot dis pose of our property or exercise any public trust, without, in each instance, disclaiming them. We lime sworn, and do swear as follows :-,-- (Here follows the Oath of Allegiance.) We have been accused of a divided allegiance. Why is not the same accusation pleaded against the Catholic of ' Prussia and Hanover ? We have , denied the calumny, and the conduct of our ancestors justifies the denial. The Catholics of Ireland stood firm to the Protestant House of Brunswick in 1745, against the Catholic Pretender and the Roman Pontiff. Our oaths are regarded in the ordi. , nary intercourse of life as inviolate. Why are they not equally so by our country ? 'Why should there be it dif ferent measure for us in and out of Parliament? If this ae cusation :were grounded on fact, what would preient many of our body at• this moment from legislating with, inst e ad of supplicating the j us tic e - o f e i t h er House of Parliament. The spirit of persecution is not the spirit or the doc trine, but the perversion of the spirit and the doctrine of the Catholic religion. In bad times, it has unfor tunately tainted, more or less, every Christian denomina tion. If the Catholic persecuted the Protestant; he did persecute the' Catholic, it was attack 'and retaliation; and if the Oatholic persecuted longer than the Protestant, it was only because the' Catholic was much longer in posses sion of power. Nor do we instance this from any desire or feeling of recrimination, but from a deep conviction that it is not to any form of religion , that blame is to .be at tached, but lust of power, rousing and wielding the bad passions of the human heart, and which, in all countries, we confidently trust, must, sooner or later, disappear be.; fore the progress of freedom, which is the due sense of mutual interest, and the gradual advance of civilization through all parts of the globe. Inc our own land, we ure a proscribed people. We are excluded from all participation Of the Government; con etituting as We do virtually and essentially the nation..—We pay taxes which we have not imposed ; w e contribute to t h e upholding, of establishments in which we. can. have no share; we pay double tithes, double cars; we are judged by tribunals in which we have little amtroul. English men rebelled against the ship-money and the Star-Cham ber. Would the. Englishman of the present day submit to this:?. .NlTould Canada submit to rt-..would . Hanover ? And is Ireland to be worse governed than a foreign king dom or a distant settlement ? Would it 'not have been better for her to have been a colony, than, as She is, a vital portion of this free empire ? WO do not desire power, but we claim eligibility. \%e desire that a Protestant Sovereign might have the means to avail himself of the services of all his people. We de sire to enlarge the resources of the British ernpire,to conso lidate the liberties of the entire British nation. Is he an enemy to England who desires , this ? he a frientko, England who o pposes this desire If there ere any danger likely to accru e by the admis sion of the Catholics of Ireland into the Constitution, * that danger already exists amongat us. By t h e a ct of 1791, we i have already the natural elements of a first pOliticill in thierice—means of acquiring wealth --education to employ it•-=-the - eleetive franchise to render both ava il a bl e . Have we abused these powers? Has the nobl e s t rugg l e o f our friTholderS in aught dindashed.the stun of British liberty Have the real interests of the country sliffered 2 At home we have shown we are capable of upholding, not of injur ing, British freedom; abroad, who could distinguish in the field of battle between the Protestant or Catholic soldier Nut the Frenchman, who yielded to our arms, nor the German or Spaniard, who fought beside us. Why should the Protestant he alarmed at the admission of the Catholic into the . Constitution ? Does he appre hend in his own religion any principle' of - weakness which will yield in a fair and equal struggle ? Does England dread one-third of her empire sliMild absorb the other two, ar that, by the introduction into the Houses of Patti/anon of a few additional members, the Religion, Crown, and Le gislature of these realms will cease to be essentially and constantly:Protestant The real danger is in things as they are, not in things as' they may be; the Protestant suffers where the Catholic is aggrieved. England is endangered by the oppression and danger of Ireland. It h as b een stated before the Imperial Legislature that this Cmintry is one great mass of discon tent. It is—we do not affect to conceal it ; and though we will not allege as motives for better systems, the ex treme cases, feared by all good men in either country, we cannot disguise the • many intermediate states of injury to which Protestant-and:Catholic are equally exposed. • Is it nothing that the empire should , be -taxed for our divisions, or that an enormous military force should not only consume the natural resources of the country, but by a circle 'the most vicious, draw even 'far assistance upon the contribu tions of England ? Is it nothing for England, for the Eng lish and Protestant proprietor, to . find his revenues de s creased, his security diminished, his tenantry impoverished ? Is it nothing for the Protestant as well as Catholic mer chant to find the avenues of industry closed, the springs of national wealth dried up, capital, which is cast to every other quarter of the globe ' refused to us, and the Briti s h empire altogether paralyzed in one of its most important members ? Of the sufferings of our people, privation, penury, starvation, fever, plague,and death, We say noth ing, but we are too close to England not to spread in time the contagion of our misery. Our population already over flows upon her, so also will our wretchedness, We shall lower her unless she can raise us. Is she disposed to risk it for a theological difference, or to stand up ere it be too late, and by a just appreciation of her interests, as well as ours, to, vindicate both by a single act of justice mulles nerosity ? • • People of England—Place yourselves, therefore, in our Eosition, and reason with us . Lo o k roun d to t h e rest of urope, and judge for us. Is not every other country but this; Catholic as Well as Protestant, throwing aside its see tarian animosities, and, by a remo va l of a ll unequal laws, Combining against the day or trial, which. assuredly must come, all their 'subjects into one free people ? Shull Eng land, the eldest-born of Eeropean liberty, the centre of European civilization, cede the station which she held fo r so many centuries before 'manhind, to nations, whom, till this hour, she deemed, and,justly deemed, her inferiors IVe are in that critical moment when the danger. of inno vation has passed away, and the advantage of change is not yet too late. Let Ireland be in deed, as in word, the sister, but not the handmaid of England; so shall we be united by a better bond than that of fear—by common li berties, mutual happiness, and. the throne of those' realms . fiketti)fi the' only lasting security for any throne, the spontaneous attachments and well-deserte,l loyalty of combined and prosperous people. COMMERCIAL ROAD WHITECHAPEL. EWELL/INCE COMBINED WITH ECONOMY GOOD ARTICLE AT A LOW 'PRICE ! IN order to keep pace with the highly-improved state of the Commercial Road and its environs, which, fur Respectability and Commerce, vies with the proudest thoroughfare in.tbe Metropolis, JOHN LLOYD and CO., KING'S PLACE, corner of BATTY•STREICT, Commercial Road, are determined, in the selection, extent, and quality of every Article in their Stock of LINEN DRAPERY, HOSIERY, LACE, and HABER DASHERY, to be equalled b y f ew, and excelled by None ! At a time when distress and famine have arrived it their zenith, and the Manufacturing Districts are reduced to the last extremity, J. Lloyd and Company have been induced by feelings of grad tude as well as the desire of meriting future favours, to pur chase the whole of their large and valuable Stock of Winter GoOds with their ever acceptable cash; thereby entailing upon their Customers the pleasing satisfaction of alleviating the distressed, and ensuring to themselves a good article at a low price.—With such claims to public support, and a determination to act with rectitude and principle, they respectfully offer their well-selected Stock, at Prices full 20 per Cent. cheaper than Credit Shops can buy for. The following curtailed ,List of sedge of the extreme Irish Linen, beginning at 6id, Russia Sheeting, 7id. Brown Holland, 4id. Damask Table Linen, yard and and half wide, Is. 6d. Linen thickaback, Russia Towelling, Suffolk Hemp, 61d. 'Town Prints, beginning at 4id. An immense Stock of Stuffs, Prices will enable the Public to lowness of Charge :- 350 pieces of real Chintz, be ginning at 6d. Bed Ticks, aid. Gros de Naples and Lutestring, in every shade of colour, - from 21. 6d. Satins, all colours, 2s. 4d. " Cloaks, 4s. 641. Rich Silk Shawls, 2 yds. wide ss. 6d. Au immense Stock of Lace, be ginning at id. per yard. Lace Veils, 4c. 941. 500 dozen Swiss Handker chiefs, 6 d. . . 300 pair of Witney Blankets, Is. 9d. The largest Stock of Furnitures in London. . - . LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Dec. I. JONP.6 VALPY Ann MIMS. The injunction in this case (see mu Paper of yesterday) Waa (161401Veri. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Gun mrAct, Ore. J. CHARGE OF LIDEL—POLICE REPORTS. HARRI 4 WIIXLIKIX. When this case was called on, only nine Special Jurymen an swered to their names. Mr. Sergeant Yam:RAN, for the plaintiff, prayed a tad,a, aril three Common Jurymen were sworn. The names of the Jurors were :—Special Jurors--David Richards, merchant ; James Cue nove, ditto ; B. M. limes (or Inglis), ditto ; William Curtis, ditto; Josiah Staustield (or Stanstead), ditto ; Bartholomew Jef frey, ditto; Charles Aboyne, ditto; John Mackie, ditto; George Richard Rohinseu, ditto. .Talesmen—William John, .Joseph Blades, John Robertson. Mr. Hour opened the pleadings. lie gated. that this was an action brought by the plaintiff, Harris, a pawnbroker in the Strand, to recover damages from Joshua WbeWen, the publisher of an Evening Newspaper, called The British Traveller, for the libels contained in the midterm of that paper, dated the 4th and the llth of August. The defendant pleaded the general issue. Mr, Sergeant VAucttiot said, the libel complained of appeared in the British Traveller evening paper, in the shape of a police report. Now he was always indulgent, or he would rather say, just, to the press, in all cases where he found it under prosecu tion. In this police account, as it appeared in the paper in ques tion, the plaintiff was made to cut a very conspicuous but a very abominable figure. He was an advocate for the publication of all proceedings in our Courts of Justice; but in police cases, where' only a preliminary enquiry was entered into, it was not right that the cases of individuals should be given to the public, because . it was calculated to create prejudice against them. The first libel complained of was contained in a number of the British yeller, dated August 4, 1826. It described the plaintiff, who hail for years resided in the Strand, as a pawnbroker, a man of unim.. peached character, as a person who had acted improperly—but he had bitter state the cue. The libel stated, that u person went into plaintiff's shop and demanded 86s. upon two watches; that the money was paid and that— The CHIEF Jusvcr—ls this the libel, Brother Vaughan? Yon have stated that no justification is pleaded. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN said, it was not. He was about to state some of the facts, but it was not necessary, as his Lord ship had very properly suggested. Ile should, without further preface, read the libel!.. The Learned 'Sergeant then read the fol lowing libel : ti Bow-Sram.—Yesterday afternoon, as Mr. Minalmil, the Sitting Magistrate, was about leaving the Bench, a-young fictiteli : man, who stated his name to be Robert Fraser, and that lie was a police officer of the city of Edinburgh, 'entered the office, out of breath, and begged leave to inform his Worship that he had just been robbed of his watch in a very extraordinary manner.. lie said that he came to London a day or two since, on butineas 'con- Inucted with his office, and that Morning he was . standing at the corner of Castle-court, Strand, tv!'cn a smartly dressed fellow ' came up to him, and asked him if be wanted to buy a watch, at the same time taking one ,elmost as big as a turnip from his fob, and handing it to him for inspection. The complainant said be was in no want of a watch, for he bail a good one of his own, and luid no desire to bargain for another. t Well,' said the stranger, should like to deal with you, and, since. you won't buy my watch, I will, if you like, pur chase yours.' The applicant declined any dealing, bat the stranger having requested very civilly to look at his watch, he, as a matter of courtesy, and not suspecting a trick in the middle of the day, was drawing it from his fob, when the stranger. snatched it from him, and ran 011. The applicant followed him, and taw hint go into the shop of Mr. Muria, a pawnbroker in the Strand, whither dawnhe followed umn thhi counter,an a wathlinalsikmtthbelaloZnofaiSidssa.pifplti,enantthe's 1%1%4: The applicant immediately informed the shapnian, "P ' the watches; that one of them was his, and had been Omen from hint, but the ehopman, Who teemed to be on very familiar terms with the atranger, only laughed at him, and took the watches to an inner room, Where Mr. Harris, hia muter, wita sitting, and 74 . . a 'le f : • ;LA fat t .' 7 ''j • • •: .r the lattif Inkejette`444 l gave him the amount required. This the sbnpnitt ; ltettfie4l.lo4. strangsr,' who immediat e ly left the box in witifeb he was standing, and the.applicant was about to follow him, when he was (idled by the shaman. who laid, if one of the watches was his, he had better take a ihiplicate for it. He waited for the ticket, thinking that he hail hitter huve something to show fin. his witeh, hot in the mean time the 'itranger had gone entirely. away., He remonstrated with the khaprnan and his master, Mr. Ihirri., but they both treated him with ridi. rule, and said they-had nothing to do with the matter, and that he must get his watch as other people did, by redeeming it, and if the stranger had done him wrong, he must seek his remedy against him. " Mr. MINSMILL asked the applicant why he did not prevent the stranger from pledging his watch when in the shop ? " Fraser said, the stranger got into a box where he cuuld not well get at him, and he told the shopman that the watch was Inc and warned him not to take it in, which be thought was all he could do. " Mr. Mucstiut.i. immediately dispatched Conyers, a sou• !table, to desire the attendance of Mr. Ifarris and his shopman, avito appeared in a few minutes. " repeated Lis statement, anti Mr. Minshull having ex pressed an opinion that the vase, as it stood unexplained, veSu a very flagrant nne, asked Air. Harris and his shopotan what they lied to say? " Mr: Harris, who evincod great confidence of manner, treate4l the matter very lightly., and said, the fact Wati, he Iraq in his psi lour, when his man came, showed him the watehem, and mentioned the amount demanded upon them, which he (liarrie)' gave him as a matter of course. " 'Pl►:r 4hopman;wbotie name Is Ridl4l4l Wingham, said, he advanced the money as a matter' of C.ourse, and he did not know hot that the watches belonged to the person who offered them, Wising only the assertion of the complaimmt, who was an utter stranger to him, to.the contrary. . . " The shopman being sharply questioned by the Magistrate. admitted that be was nut .unacquainted with the person who - pledged the Watches; and being hard pressed, said he than& lie ' might be able to find him. " Mr. Mtreorett. said, the transaction was a vertehamefal one ; and the ehopmen would do well to find the fellow who pledged the watches as speedily as possible. There. was strong ground for believing that he was leagued With the onager, wit even if the latter should be caught, he (Mr.' Mioaltall) doubted if it would not he his duty to commit him (Winslw)) as an acres vary. There was not sufficient, perhaps, to detain hint, but he should require security for his future appearance. " Mr. Harris said he would he answerable for his shopmati's appearance, and Mr. Minshull accepted his bail ; at the same Cam ordering-Conyers to exert himself to apprehend the fellow who pledged the watches." Now he pot it to the Jury, whether this statement, which had no foundation, being inserted in the defendant'i paper, was mit calculated to injure the plaintiff'. character? Was it not as much as to aay,, th - at the plaintiff anti his man, though aware that a felony had been committed, winked at it, anti allowed the. thief • to escape, and that the injured party having been laughed at by them both when he represented his lose, was obliged to go to a police office for redress? He now came to the second libel,whiclt was published on the II tit of August--which was in the follow ing-week. Upon 'the evening of that day, the Paper contained an account, purporting to be from How-steet, and beginning-- how did they think ? With the words Peaehran and Lockit,. the Jury must well remember these t* celebrated characters in The Beggars' Opera. They were men who pretended to be honest. but who were most consummate rogues ; yet to 'these did • the Editor compare the plaintiff,' Ale. Harris, and his man. He now came to the libel which was'publiihed in the ante paper au the I I tit of August. It s ' as as follows: : " PEA CIIDM AND LOCKM—In our Paper of Friday last under the head Bow-street, we gave particulars of the robbery of a Scotchman, named Frazer, whose watch was snatched front his hand, run away with, and pawned at the shop, of a man 'named Harris, in the Strand, who refused to give it up, although aware of the robbery. _ " Several' applications have since been made to the pawnbroker, hut without effect, as he conteinhi that the transaction-seas fair no his part, and that he knows nothing of the man who pledged the watehre at his shop. " The complainant, having stated the result of his applicatiou, through Conyers, - the constable, suit! that he was at a loss bow to proceed, and requested adviee from the Magistrate? Mr. Minshnll observed, it was quite evident that the thief and the pawnbroker were in league together; and the subsequent con duct of the latter served strongly to strengthen that conviction. He recommended, as Conyers despaired of finding out the persou who had run away with hie watch, that Harris should he imme diately indicted am an accessary after the fact and the complainant s.tid he was determined to act accordingly." Wee h possible that any thing could he more bitter, more viru lent, than this insinuation, that the pawnbroker and the thief • were leagued together, and acted in concert ? It might be that the Editor of the Paper fond no malice against the plaintiffr . and that he bad only inserted a correct report of that which had occurred at the Police-office; but if these statements, or any part of them were strictly true, the defendant might' hive placed them upon the record, and proved them by evident*. If a publieation had a tendency to defame the character, or injure the reputation, it was just to attribute to it a malicious character. , lu this in stance the plaintiff was represented, almost in term*, as being a receiver of stolen goods ; as a person leagued with thieves. I in. der these circumstances he came before a Jury of his Country, to clear his character from such unjust imputations. Mr. Mattison prodnced- the two numbers of • the Paper front the Stamp-o ff ice file. Mr. SCrjeant Wit.olt (with whom WWI Mr. Wictntas), for the defendant, said the publication was admitted. Mr. Sergeant VAPORS!: said that that was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Sergeant WILDE said, that it seas moot lucky that his Learned Brother (Sergeant Vaughan) should have just discovered that it was not necessary, on his part, to call • any witnesses, even to prove that his client was a pawnbroker. If he had called the ehopmati to prove that fact, the Jury would have had an opportus 'dry of becoming acquainted with some of the.real merits of this case. His Learned Brother was, upon this .occasion, •in the usual situation of all Counsel for the . plaintiff, in cases of libel ; he was a zealous advocate for the liberty of the press. - When was it ever otherwise? If any man was at a loss to BM a friend and advocate of the freedom of the press, let him only wait until some Newspaper was proceeded against for a libel, and •he might be sure to find him in the person of the plaintiff's Counsel, The Jury had been told in this instance, that the publication of cartes which occur at our Police offieee,where both sides meet—where the whole case is stated ou the one part and the other, is not at all likely to prednee'beneftt to this public. In the eats before nit. if the plaintiff's Counsel had called witnesses, the hwy. would her enabled to ascertain the real s t ate o f the ease ; they I, not dons so ; but the Jury should hear from the young malt who sat 110 his right hand, that the statement of what took (dads it Bow rtreet was true in all its parts. Rlr.•Serjeant VALIGU A said, that his Learned Brother could rail evidence to prove that fact. The CHIEV fuvrzoti».l shall take care of that. Mr. Seljeant.Witalz 0.41,10 was now under the protection of his Lordship, who promised to take care of him..--(A laugh.) The CHIEF .)!rarer—l was roily noxious to prevent you from being interrOpted, Brother Wilde. . „ Serjeant WILD/4 thanked his Lordship. Did the plaint 4 attempt to make any complaint against the author of the calumny, it' calumny it wns? Ile did no such thing. Ile proceeded against the Editor of the Ayer, who kneW nothing of the facts lie believed, b s L t i c:a r t i r , a n a el n i l t i 1 e N n y w r i w i e h re ) er .s i KV ll u i l i i ed l i t e t a n n a h b ) i le nl W:O i n rs short•, by evidence, i'alttle:l4lll4;,ll.lori that really took place et Bow-street. your justifi ca ti on upon the record. But lam -of NA- The ettlEr 3tr svtcy—You cannot upon t hi s p l ea. Y ou s h o uld publish what passes at a -P o li c e-offitei ('Mn` not protect yourself by h oi a o v o e , put y our f you did take place. 111 r. Sergennt•Wit.nr was awar e that in the case el Dlirarait showi ng t h at you h ave . truly stated what and Thwaites, it was ti d e d th at a proof of the truth ni a police ac count was no justification ; but he believed his Lordship would himself have to make the - rule, if he 144 it down that such pt"c'r could not he given in Mitigation of damages. The C HIEF j it a T icartalif, that that point bad been already de cided, but if it had tult, he would now decide it for the first time ; although, perhaps, in doing so, he might differ from some. of lie said now, as be had often said before, his Leanit e !ii .r :Lo r tj e ler nweedingt in that the Police-offices ought not Wins ; thit wicked to publish them, paiti u jarly w bere must n. created against p e r s o n s go i ng b e f ore a - 3 Ono: fur all, he held that what passed' in inquiry before Magudrate ought not to be made public. Mr. Sergeant Wwor did not pretend to deny the ground of t h i n ; but lie wiefted to thew the Jury that there was no malice on the part of the defendant, and he emild not better chew this thou by proving that the account of the proceedings at Bow-ewe was a correct account. The LORD CRISP AltsTIM repeated, that he could not permit evidence of the truth of the publieatinn, witbont to having been placed upon the record,. Mr. Serjeant lA'ttant hoped that hit Lordship would take a note of the point. The Ciuze ' Jvyrict true be nhotild Eivq flit LAM' V4l 'U bt No. 10,697. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. . . A . .. ... '-': . ... :-. ) . • • • ,-' - ' l''.. ' I . i . ‘7,' .. ; ......2 . 7" , ... e . , „, . , PRICE 7i.